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Hey everyone!
 
Due to Ed's inability to actually figure anything out. This episode is coming to you a bit later than normal. 
 
In this episode, Kara is regaling everyone with stories revolving around people in history who ever tried to "elevate" their lives with gun powder that China invention in year... ... ... something or something.
 
Anyways, humanity (at least the bros out there) have tried to utilize explosives to achieve new heights and other interesting things at the expense of blowing themselves up in the process. 
 
So listen in because we also Deja back and we don't think she's going away anytime soon. Deja has a knack of dissolving Kara and Ed's nerdiness to make it palatable to 99% of the world's audience. This really applies to Ed's droning on and on and on about "sciencey" things. 
 
Deja is also working on an epic episode involving Salmon Rushdie, so stay tuned to that masterpiece. 
 
Lastly, make sure you tell your friends about this little show and if necessary, physically take their phones and find the episode for them. Trust us, you'll be doing them a favor and you'll be introducing your friend to the wide world of podcasting!

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Hey Everyone!
 
Kara and Ed decided that they need to spice things up a bit and bring on a guest. So they found a lady by the name of Deja to liven things up. As it turns out, Deja has a bit of a pop culture / music background (as well as a really nice microphone to talk into) and she knows a thing or two about how NOT to make music. 
 
In this episode, you'll be introduced to a song that literally NOBODY wants to listen to that is now a cult classic as well as a performer who not only soils herself on stage but can carry a single tune through the entire national anthem, and lastly a 1980s ultra hair rocker who destroys a congressional hearing with minimal blush and eyeshadow along with epic hair and a crap ton of eloquence. [Yes we know this is a run-on sentence / paragraph but who can afford a punctuation subscription these days] 
 
If you've ever doubted yourself in terms of musical probity, then take a listen. You'll quickly discover that you're not as bad as you previously thought.  

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Hey everyone!
 
It took a hot minute and a ton of feedback, but Kara and Ed got the long anticipated second part of, "Leaded Gasoline" episode.
  
In this episode, Ed dives into the absolutely insane story of how one man named, Claire, was able to bring down the crazy stupid leaded gasoline empire. 
 
Be sure to absolutely alienate everyone you know and get them to subscribe to the this podcast. Kara and Ed are working on a donation plate to pass around where they can make about 1 to 1.5 dozens of dollars per episode LOL. 
 

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In this episode, Ed addresses that question you might have about why gas pumps say "unleaded gasoline only." Well, it turns out some people in the 1920s thought that adding lead to gasoline helps your car run smoother and overall better. Even though most people since ancient Romans understood that lead isn't good for the body. In the 1920's all that valid concern went right out the window and accumulated all that lead in the brains of millions (if not BILLIONS) of people. 
 
Follow along where Ed and Kara address a dumpster fire so blatantly obvious both on paper and in execution, that we have to wonder why putting lead in gasoline was even considered a good idea. 
 
Lastly! Don't forget to hound your friends and family about The Day's Dumpster Fire. We all have that acquaintance who loves audiobooks, but lacks the technological skills to find The Day's Dumpster Fire, then physically walk them through how to find it on any pod catcher app you use.   

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We've all seen the movie 300  which means we're all experts on the battle of Thermopylae... Thermopolis... Thermopylae... or however it's spelled. We all know how 300 Spartans, with amazing muscles and abs, were able to fend off the thousands of men at the hands of the evil God-King Xerxes...  Xerxes... Zercksies... or however it's spelled. It is a story that has resonated through history as the epitome of the "underdog" theme.
 
In this episode, Kara takes a different perspective of the Battle of Thermopylae. Instead of focusing on the Spartans, she looks at the battle from the Persian perspective, which if you know the show, is a perfect Dumpster Fire. What was suppose to be a quick battle to knock out Greek support for unifying Greece against the Persians, quickly ballooned into a fiasco where it seems as though nothing could break the Spartan line. Kara also sheds a bit of light on the history of Persia and for the most part debunks, disproves, and even calls out blatant inaccuracies all at the expense of Hollywood story telling. 
 
If you want a good map that kind of sheds some light on how the Greco-Persian War take place, check it out here.

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Happy New Years Eve from everyone at The Day's Dumpster Fire!
 
 In this episode, that has absolutely nothing to do with New Years Eve, Ed finally remembers that he needed to finish off his part 2 of his Hubble Needs Glasses episode from weeks ago. That is exactly what this episode is about. He explores how a tiny defect barely visible to the human eye can cause a 2.4 meter to be perfectly ground imperfectly... whatever that means. 
 
Furthermore, he sheds some light on what the seven astronauts who went up in Hubble's Service Mission-1 had to go through to fit a very customer pair of glasses into it's eye-hole so that people on Earth can once and for all see just how magnificent this telescope is. 
 
So this episode isn't so much a dumpster fire in the traditional sense, but what Kara and Ed have deemed a "dumpster garden" where out of a complete mess of a situation, a win can come about. 

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They finally made it! The original episode 20 was a recording nightmare and instead of Ed throwing his laptop out the window, our resident nerds re-recorded a new one. This time the right boxes were checked so it actually recorded. 
 
But yes! Episode 20 in all its glory is out in the wild. In this episode, Kara and Ed break down the famous Salem Witch Trials of 1692. While the rest of the world was winding down from all their witch hunt chicanery, the American colonies were just getting warmed up. However, America being America took their own spin on things and our hosts look at everything from the belief structures of the Puritans, how women and children were valued in Puritanical society as well as politics, and land grabbing and legalized incestuous robbery. There is a lot of stuff that went on behind the scenes beyond a handful of girls claimed they saw and experienced. 
 
After 19 women and men were innocently executed for bogus reasons, it's safe to say that NOTHING like this witch hunt could ever happen again. America always learns its lessons and thankfully crazy witch hunts have never happened again... [insert eye roll emoji here] 

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Hey Everyone!
 
Kara and Ed are back behind the microphones (albeit Ed's pop filter technique still isn't working... you'll hear it when you hear it; meanwhile Kara's $30 budget special is going strong... ) with a new episode revolving around Henry VIII and his puss filled leaky thigh. Kara dives into why being married to Henry VIII is a really bad idea. In fact, Kara brings up just how dangerous it can be to know the wives of Henry VIII. 
 
To be in Henry's circle, you have to to sign a waiver that states that you're quite content with the notion that your head and your body are ok being in two different locations in London at the same time. And this is all due to the King's whim. 
 
What could possibly go wrong?
 
Furthermore, what happens when you fixate on controlling biology to the point where if you have a daughter, then heads must roll. And yet if you have a boy, he's too sickly to rule...
 
It seems like to be the kind of king Henry VIII was, you need to live forever and be in control of thousands of cloning vats. May god have mercy on your soul if you defy the necessity of chromosomal destiny and you wind up with any gender! 

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Fat Batman and Asthmatic Robin are out of a life inducing exile after a long bout of Murphy's Law saying, "Hold my beer, and watch this!" Being an adult is hard and "adulting" takes up a lot of time. Now our intrepid hosts are back and Ed is once again nerding out on sciencey things. All the while Kara sits patiently while Ed tries and fails to bring out his inner Neil deGrasse Tyson. 
 
In this episode, the famous Hubble Space Telescope's origin story is under the magnifying lens so to speak. We all love the pictures this instrument has been pumping out for decades, but few remember or know that the process to get this thing built took decades and was fraught with one trashcan fire after another. Everything from funding issues, to mirror grinding issues, to even exploding space shuttles. The fact that it is doing so well now is a testament to humanity's inability to control Murphy's Law... but it's cute when it does try. 
 
Sit back, relax, plug your earholes with some electrified magnets and relish the return of the top 150,000th podcast in Kalispell, Montana. 

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In what was supposed to be a bonus episode for the hit release of Christopher Nolan's movie, Oppenheimer, Ed and Kara took a deep dive into J. Robert Oppenheimer's life and the various events that brought him up to the infamous Manhattan Project. In this episode, everyone gets to look into what made Oppenheimer such a genius as well as a good leader, but more importantly, we get to learn how to make a seemingly innocuous research paper entitled in such a way that it seems absolutely fascinating. 
 
Ultimately, you will get some visibility into how the atomic bomb worked; why there was so much desire to unlock the power of the atom; and why it's a bad idea to have a brother, sister in law, a girlfriend, and a land lady all be card carrying communists at the same time...
 
Join our intrepid nerds in what they had originally intended to be a bonus episode to be be released on the same day as the movie as they fail to even get that part right. What was intended to be a bonus episode in between normal bi-weekly episodes, has turned out to be just a normal episode. 

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